Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:07:39 GMT From: snowchyld <freesd.org__last_spam_from_ports@snowchyld.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/101754: Relinquishing ports maintained Message-ID: <200608101307.k7AD7dZ5050193@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200608101310.k7ADAIRT048109@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 101754 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Relinquishing ports maintained >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: maintainer-update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 10 13:10:17 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: snowchyld >Release: N/A >Organization: >Environment: N/A >Description: Relinquishing port maintainer status on the following ports. Email address' included will be closed. mail/libspf2-10 mail-libspf2-freebsd-ports@snowchyld.org mail/libsrs2 mail-libsrs2-freebsd-ports@snowchyld.org mail/p5-Mail-Alias mail-p5-mail-alias-freebsd-ports@snowchyld.org mail/p5-Mail-SRS mail-srs-bsd-port@snowchyld.org net-im/p5-Net-MSN p5-net-msn-freebsd-ports@snowchyld.org textproc/p5-Hash-Merge hash-merge-freebsd-port@snowchyld.org >How-To-Repeat: This is easy, maintain or submit a PR, this involves your email address being posted all over, and spammers picking it up, your mailserver then falls over due to the volume of 'spam' sent to tagged email address. I don't need a larger penis, hot XXX babes, or friends from Nigeria whose relatives want to give me MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, or stock trades, yeah I hate those too. >Fix: 1] Tag each mail you send as a PR 2] Get spam 3] Deny all from that mail tag 4] Count the denies 5] Thank the guys for the effort in contacting you 6] Relinquish status of Maintained Ports 7] Feel bad about it Suggestion, some sort of basic encoding of email address' when published (it goes a few places..) Maybe an image (captcha) of the email address which is also then a sed s/@/\(at\)/ |sed 's/\./\(dot\)/' or something similar >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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